propaganda

China's spiralling online numbers have turned the internet into a forum for citizens to express their opinions, albeit covertly.The number of internet users in China, already the world's largest online market, hit 477 million at the end of March, a senior government official was quoted by state media as saying ...

China employs an army of censors to police the Internet, much to the chagrin of the US, and is strengthening their onslaught by deploying legions of "web commentators" to get the government's message out -- in a crafty but effective way.With nearly half a billion people surfing the net in ...